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SprintRetro

Jira-native retros with real sprint data

Overall score
5.9
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Overview

SprintRetro is an Atlassian Forge app from Agile Pulse that runs sprint retrospectives inside Jira Cloud. It pulls live sprint metrics (velocity and predictability, scope change, carryover, cycle time, second-by-second burndown) into the retro board itself. A major June 2026 release widened it into a continuous-improvement workspace: an infinite whiteboard with visual templates, anonymous team-health pulse checks with cross-sprint trends, an on-demand AI facilitator, and an action dashboard that quality-scores every action. Both Marketplace listings are Cloud Fortified. The free app still covers unlimited users, but a paid Pro app now carries custom templates, unlimited grouping and AI sprint summaries.

Best for: Scrum teams already living in Jira Cloud who want retros, a whiteboard and real sprint metrics on one board — and are happy for everything to stay inside Jira's walls.

How SprintRetro describes itself

SprintRetro pitches itself as the retro that lives where the sprint data already is — an Atlassian Forge app that never leaves Jira Cloud.

"A continuous-improvement workspace for Jira — combining retros, whiteboards, sprint metrics, team health, AI facilitation, and action follow-through."

Agile Pulse has leaned on free for two years — the FAQ still promises the app is "currently available at no cost, allowing unlimited user access on your Jira instance," with "no immediate plans to change this cost structure." The product's own docs say otherwise: every Download on Jira button now points at the paid Pro listing, and a May 2026 wiki page sets out Free's limits and the session and participant caps still to come. The pitch is shifting from free forever to free to start.

Our take

SprintRetro spent this cycle growing up. The Jira-native sprint metrics are still the reason to pick it — carryover tagged "+2 sprints", cycle time per status, predictability across five sprints — but April and June 2026 added card grouping, an infinite whiteboard with Miro/Mural import, a seven-dimension anonymous health pulse plotted against committed-vs-delivered, and an action dashboard that SMART-scores every action and offers to rewrite the vague ones. For a Jira-shop Scrum team, that is a real retro toolkit now, not a board with metrics bolted on.

Two honest limits. First, the walls: Jira Cloud only, no async, no scheduled retros, no API, and export is whiteboard-only. Second, the ceiling on procurement — the trust centre's SOC 2 and ISO 27001 entries credit AWS, Atlassian and Render, not an Agile Pulse audit, and there is no SCIM, audit log or data residency. Free is also being fenced in: 3 templates today, session and participant caps announced.

Much stronger than a year ago, and cheap either way — but a one-team tool inside Jira, not an org-wide improvement platform.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor7.5
AI & Insights7.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade4.0

Pros

  • + Real Jira sprint data inside the retro — velocity and predictability over five sprints, scope change, carryover tagged with how many sprints an issue has slipped, cycle time per status, and a burndown that records every individual point change
  • + The action loop is the best part: actions link back to the idea that triggered them, carry forward with duplicate protection, get an AI SMART quality score with a one-tap rewrite, and can be pushed into Jira as issues
  • + June 2026 added a genuine infinite whiteboard — stickies, shapes, frames, tables, connectors, live cursors, follow-a-teammate, Tenor GIFs, private mode, a synced board timer, PNG/print-PDF export, and board import from Miro or Mural
  • + Anonymous Team Health pulses across seven dimensions, with cross-sprint trends overlaid against committed-vs-delivered and carryover — the health-vs-delivery view is rare at this price
  • + Cloud Fortified and Bugcrowd bug-bounty on both listings, and the free app still covers unlimited users on a Jira site

Cons

  • − Jira Cloud only — every participant needs a Jira licence, and there is no Slack, Teams, Confluence or standalone web app, nor any public API, webhooks or MCP server
  • − The free tier is narrowing. Today: 3 basic templates, no custom template creation, limited polls and grouping, no AI sprint summary. Published as planned: ~3–5 sessions/month and under 8 participants per session
  • − No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own — the trust centre's own entries attribute both to AWS, Atlassian Cloud and Render, not to an Agile Pulse audit. No SCIM, audit logs or data residency, and the app is not "Runs on Atlassian" certified
  • − No async mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, and no cross-team or org-level health rollup — the Pro usage report covers adoption, not outcomes
  • − Export is whiteboard-only (PNG or print-to-PDF); column-mode retros still have no board export beyond pushing an action into Jira

Features

Retrospectives

Templates· Column templates plus one-click visual whiteboard templates (Sailboat, Speedboat, 5 Whys, Team Radar, Risk Storming, Kudos Wall); Free is limited to 3 basic templatesCustom templates· Add/rename/recolour columns and save personal templates — custom template creation is a Pro featureAnonymous inputPrivate/public retros

Health checks

Health checks· Anonymous pulse checks across morale, delivery confidence, collaboration, clarity, psych safety, workload and tech debt, with cross-sprint trends overlaid on Jira sprint metricsTeam radars· Team Radar whiteboard template; health trends plot as per-dimension line charts, not a radar instrumentMood / sentiment checkPsychological safety· A rated dimension in the Team Health pulse, plus a hidden-input mode that keeps contributions private until reveal

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction itemsLink actions to ideasPresentation mode· Whiteboard follow-mode — click a teammate to follow their viewport; no facilitator-driven presentation flow@mentions· @mentions with autocomplete in whiteboard stickies, text and shapes; not in column-mode cardsDrag-and-drop grouping· Drag one card onto another to create a named group (shipped April 2026); Free is capped, Pro unlimitedCarry over open actionsWhiteboard

Voting

Independent dot votingCustom vote countVote at any time· No phase gating — voting stays open for the whole session until the moderator closes it

Engagement

PollingIcebreakersGIFsCustom backgrounds· Per-person whiteboard canvas background (grid, dots or plain) plus app colour themes and display sizesTeam kudos

AI

AI grouping / clusteringAI action itemsAI summary· AI Facilitator discussion summaries; the AI sprint summary in the sprint report is Pro-onlyAI retro / health-check insights· AI sprint-timeline summary (Sprint Replay) plus theme spotting across the current and past retrosAI coaching· AI Facilitator: neutral re-phrasing of charged notes, action suggestions and a SMART action-quality score (0–100, A–F) with one-tap rewrite — runs only when asked

Reporting

Action tracker dashboard· Action Follow-Through dashboard: median time-to-close, per-assignee breakdown, closed-action history and AI quality scoringExport formats· Image, PDF, Jira

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· No separate login — access rides the Jira Cloud session, so Atlassian SSO/SAML appliesGDPR compliantFacilitator-only roleMeeting historyUptime SLA / dedicated support· Cloud Fortified: critical/high-severity ticket response within one business day; Marketplace lists support 24 hours, Mon–Fri (Europe/London)

Integrations

Jira

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Sources

Last reviewed: September 1, 2026